[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

the thing about ryland grace is that he's constantly inviting people to be silly with him! he's holding open the shenanigans door and beckoning them inside! his watch is set to tomfoolery o'clock!

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[simply-a-dream]

“don’t take it personally” how would you like me to take it then? professionally? romantically? academically?

[creative-anchorage]

[suriandtaal]

[birdandmoon]

Female birds with confusing names.

Sign up for my mailing list.

[twistedingenue]

Not to be former Catholic-blogging on main but Chicago Pope can WRITE, y'all

Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery 173. This distorted view of the human person is reflected today in various forms of servitude directly linked to the digital economy. Nothing in the world of AI is immaterial or magical. Every seemingly immediate and flawless response is the result of a long chain of mediation, involving vast networks of natural resources, energy infrastructure and, above all, people. A significant part of the digital economy’s functioning relies on the silent work of millions of people engaged in essential yet largely unseen activities, such as data labeling, model training and content moderation, often involving disturbing material. In many cases, these workers are young people, predominantly women, working under demanding conditions for minimal wages. Added to this invisible labor is the even harsher work of extracting the resources required for the production of the devices and microprocessors on which AI depends. In some regions of the world, children and adolescents work in dangerous conditions, crushing the materials from which rare earth elements are extracted. The bodies of these people are scarred, injured and worn down so that computational flow may continue uninterruptedly. Furthermore, criminal networks use online platforms, messaging systems, anonymous payment methods and profiling techniques in order to recruit, control and transport victims of trafficking — very often minors — reducing men and women to “data” to be tracked and “packages” to be moved around within the same digital circuits that support much of the global economy. This reality deeply challenges the moral conscience of our time. It is not enough to invoke efficiency, nor to celebrate the benefits of innovation, if they are built on a chain of exploitation that remains deliberately hidden. If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity.

MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

[unifixation]

This reality deeply challenges the moral conscience of our time. It is not enough to invoke efficiency, nor to celebrate the benefits of innovation, if they are built on a chain of exploitation that remains deliberately hidden. If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity.

i went and read/skimmed through the encyclical and damn. bangers all around:

[baddywronglegs]

I've asked this question before and been surprised by the results, now I have access to more weirdos it's your problem:

It is the middle of a Sunday afternoon. You have nothing on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

Which of these would surprise you more to find on the doorstep?

Fairy

Walrus

Voting ended onFeb 26, 2024

[baddywronglegs]

Not naming options to skew votes but...

I think there's something fundamentally baffling with the way most of you think.

[formlesschromatic]

[troacctid]

Happy birthday to this iconic poll

[penandinkprincess]

feeling unreasonably amused and fond about the idea of bb shane figuring out that timeout=having to go sit somewhere quiet and not have anyone talk to him

and thus putting HIMSELF in timeout especially at family events with a frequency that has other family members pulling yuna and david aside to be like, "he really didn't do anything wrong, he doesn't need to be in timeout. it's okay." and them having to figure out a way to explain that yeah, they know. this wasn't their call. he is free to leave whenever he wants. he's literally not in trouble for anything. he went up to yuna, said "mommy, i need a timeout" and then walked himself off to go sit in the guest room looking SO pleased at this loophole out of having to talk to people when he's tired of it.

[secondhandjokess]

This is cute but also one of the kids I nannied literally did this. We would use time outs as a way to help teach emotional regulation, we'd always talk to the kid about why the time out happened, and why they had acted out, and what had upset them, and how could we handle it differently. And starting when she was probably three years old, the youngest kid would go put herself in time out when she got upset. She knew her siblings wouldn't bother her if she was sitting on the time out stairs, so she would use it to give herself space to calm down if something made her mad. We hadn't really intended it to work that way, but she had clearly learned that the time out step is a safe place to process emotions rather than hitting your brother about it

So anyway I could absolutely see baby Shane doing this

[beachcoma]

being into some bullshit that nobody cares about and also is stupid really changes you

[chemdoodles]

1x03. Angry Kitten's turn

[statictay]

once again i love how star wars takes place in a massive galaxy with thousands of planets and billions of people, and yet every bounty hunter knows each other personally

[dragonfox-in-a-teacup]

It's called networking babe

[youvebeenlivingfictional]

when Boba Fett adds you on LinkedIn you know you've made it

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[optional]

TED LASSO — 2.12: Inverting the Pyramid of Success

[needywetboy]

Blacksmith/Knight is so severely underrated in general imo. To forge a properly fitted suit of armour would the blacksmith not need to know the precise shape of the knight's body? How their muscles flex and move under duress and strain, how their armour must be shaped to allow the Knight as much flexibility as possible in battle? And who better than the blacksmith to help the Knight test of the suitable to a new suit of armour?

[puppyloveandpredators]

Something I love about the teen wolf fandom is that I haven't seen a single person who actually sticks to canon. Not even talking about like non canon ships or whatever, like full "that character is still alive actually", "This character never left", "anything after season 3 didn't happen. Also some things before season 3". Like other fandoms are very into the source material, and divergence in fic is treated as a what if scenario. In teen wolf it's the default. The teen wolf fandom looked at the scripts, said "this is trash", and then went and everyone did their own thing en masse. Open a fic and just accept whoever's still alive in it

[libberkib]

A round-up of the Northern Cardinals I've painted over the years (2021 - 2023).

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Carl Frederik Sørensen (Danish, 1818–1879), "Danish Ships in Rough Seas" (details), 1877

[mourningfictionalcharacters]

”potentially mature content” what the hell, sure

[thefakebernadettebanner]

Happy 20th anniversary to They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard specifically